Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne

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The Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) was established in 1941 as an organization grouping Champagne growers, cooperatives and merchants under the direction of the government.

It is charged with organizing and controlling the production, distribution, and promotion of the wines of Champagne as well as conducting research. Until 1990 it set the price of grapes and still intervenes to regulate the size of the harvest and to limit the production of wine in order to maintain market prices.

[edit] See also

• French wine
• Champagne (wine)
• Dom Perignon (person)
• Champagne Riots

[edit] Source

• Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press, second edition, 1999]